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Prosecutors probe allegations of fake voter rolls in Switzerland's vaunted direct democracy

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Swiss federal prosecutors probe allegations of fake voter rolls in Switzerland 's vaunted direct democracy.

Advocacy group co-president Noemie Roten commissioned an outside firm to collect some 10,000 signatures on voter rolls.

She subsequently discovered that nearly a third appeared fake — involving bogus addresses, falsified birth dates and repeated signatures.

Roten: Findings "could indeed jeopardize the confidence that Swiss citizens have in direct democracy".

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